Author: [[@visakanv]] Tags: #literature ## Friendliness - being a nourishing presence - **addressing your own neediness and insecurities** so that you can give more to the people in your life who you love - always contribute something positive and beautiful to any social space you inhabit ## Ambition - cultivate the desire to dream big, do more, be more. - not just cutthroat careerism - how can we make the world better? how to live gloriously? - your own imagination is a bottleneck to the amount of good you can create in this world - ambition needs to be tempered with **taste** and **consideration for others** ## Nerdiness - have the courage to unapologetically pursue and create more of the things that you love - this requires a radical honesty with yourself - often we are pursuing the things we think we should be pursuing rather than the things we love! #dough - sitting down and exploring your own interests, developing your opinion, allows you to build a healthy regard for your own opinion **you should write about formative moments of your life** - self-loathing is narcissism (one part is hating, other part is being hated. the part that is hating is protecting itself from scrutiny) Created: May 29, 2021 Last modified: May 29, 2021